Apr 15, 2023
“Call it luck, fate, or a miracle—Marion was there (the day Elvis came to record at Sun) and Sam was not. And she saw Elvis as well as heard him. And so she taped him, and asked him for his name—which she spelled ‘Pressley’—and address and telephone number, and added to his file: “good ballad singer-hold.” And something about Elvis stayed with her. She even found herself telling her mother about him that evening and her mother said, “Oh, I’ve seen that kid on the streetcars. The kid with the sideburns.” Already he had a face people remembered.”
-excerpt from ‘Elvis and Gladys’ by Elaine Dundy
*Photo: 20 year-old Elvis is pictured backstage in the Mayfair Building in Tyler, Texas on August 8, 1955❤️
